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adding models from other video games
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:41 am
by t_mann05
say i wanted a gun or car or somthing from GTA vice city, can i use them in halo 2? or is it illegal? can i use it if i give the creators credit? just wanted to check. let me know please. thanks.
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:24 am
by [users]MrBalll
Unless the game is open source it's illegal.
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:18 am
by t_mann05
how do i know if its open source? what if the models are custom made by other people, and then were meant to be put in vice city to replace other models.....those models wouldnt be made by the actual game, so it would be legal right?
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:24 am
by dazzajay
say you download an "Fan Made" AKS-74u for GTA Vice City, and you got permission from the Creator to use his models and textures, you should be allowed to put it into halo 2... but origional game content is illiegal... unless you get the game creators permission.
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 6:54 pm
by t_mann05
ok cool, cuz thats what i have is a fan made model that they made for vice city.
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:12 am
by Tyrant
I still don't fully get why people try to protect mods and have to ask permission. I mean, aren't they already pretty much just modifying copyrighted work?
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:07 pm
by Ghetto Green
Well would you want someone to steal something you made?
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:53 pm
by dazzajay
Tyrant wrote:I still don't fully get why people try to protect mods and have to ask permission. I mean, aren't they already pretty much just modifying copyrighted work?
that really does depend, take GTA:VC for instance, if someone took the time to completely model, texture and animate a AE-86 Toyota Corolla Sprinter Trueno, from scratch, for that game, they probably wouldn't be happy about someone stealing their model that they spent a lot of time and effort to create.
if all the models and textures and anim's are completely fan made, then they are not just "modifying copyrighted work" because they have completely created it from the ground up.
if i spent days creating something, i would be pissed if someone else just decided to take that creation and take all the credit for it,
if i created something like that, i would let other people use it if they asked permission and gave credit to me for creating such object.
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:15 pm
by kid908
Tyrant wrote:I still don't fully get why people try to protect mods and have to ask permission. I mean, aren't they already pretty much just modifying copyrighted work?
yes but you really aren't taking the models out of the game and putting it some where else like another game. and halo is a game that actrually suports moding.
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:53 pm
by Tyrant
It is now, but the core game is still Halo no matter what you do to it, but hey, I'm all for modding or I wouldn't be here
